Aim: To ardently press forward by zealously holding onto what we already possess (in Christ).
Doctrine: Faithfulness is encouraged in churchmen through good and bad examples. This is God's typical teaching method; this means proves to be effective in believers.
Exegesis: Paul's classification of three types of people: Timothy, who represents those with great responsibility (vv. 13-14); Phygellus & Hermogenes-types who desert the cause when things get tough (v. 15); Onesiphorus, who exemplifies those who are loyal through thick and thin (vv. 16-18).
Further application: How believers are to persevere in faithfulness to Christ: by constantly re-affirming the church's cardinal doctrines, and by fiercely guarding the good deposit made in us (by God).
Key verse: v. 13 ''Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.